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City Life
Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Rock Creek Park; Thankful 'bout Yourself; City Life; All I Ask; Happy Music; Love So Fine; Flying High; Hash
and Eggs.
Opa and The Blackbyrds: Coveted 1970s Jazz-Funk
by Mark Sullivan
Opa released only two albums before disbanding in the early 1980s. While neither of their albums found commercial success during their initial releases (despite the high-profile personalities involved), both titles gained underground followings over the following decades. The Blackbyrds' City Life celebrates its golden anniversary. “Happy Music," the dancefloor-ready title track and the group's heavily sampled ...
Johnny Hartman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Will Downing, Joanna Majoko and More
by Jua Howard
Greetings Music Family! It's time for another episode of the “First Instrument Jazz Show"! I've got new music from Dee Dee Bridgewater, Joanna Majoko and Sandra-Mae Lux, and more timeless music from Johnny Hartman, The Blackbyrds, Whitney James, Will Downing, Etta Jones, Darmon Meaderand many more. Come get lost in the music with me!Playlist ...
Basketball and Jazz: The Art of Improvisation, Part 3
by Ludovico Granvassu
In our final look into the basketball & jazz interconnectedness, we focus on several jazz, or funk-jazz soundtracks for movies dedicated to the game, on jazz musicians with a basketball career like Cab Calloway and Wayman Tisdale, a composition inspired by the elegant and creative crossover dribble known as the Shammgod, and more!Happy listening!
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Kevin Toney
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Let it be stated – no shouted from the highest mountaintop – that the root source of piano virtuoso Kevin Toney’s dynamic musical artistry has ALWAYS been hardcore straight-ahead Jazz. As an A+ disciple of the Art Tatum’s, Oscar Peterson’s, McCoy Tyner's, Errol Garner’s, and Herbie Hancock’s of the idiom (as well as Detroit-born schoolmate of Geri Allen), Kevin Toney began his journey into the dexterous essence of Jazz absorbing the richness and excellence of its most exploratory players. Though as a child of the `60s, Kevin additionally enjoys and throttles the thrilling sounds of raw, unbridled Blues, Soul, and Rock ‘n Roll – and as a deeply spiritual man serves GOD in Gospel – Jazz is the music Toney has returned to time and time again to flex the freedoms and disciplines it offers in quantifiably equal measure.
Donald Byrd: Donald Byrd Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux
by Peter Jones
What a treat it must have been in 1973 to attend the Montreux Jazz Festival: the featured artists that year included Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Chico Hamilton, Sam Rivers, Bobbi Humphrey, Dr John, Marlena Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson... and Donald Byrd with his Tentet, whose July 5 performance is captured on this album. It was ...
Keyboardist Kevin Toney To Perform Sizzling Summer “California Concerts” Through August With Jazz Trio The Kevin Toney 3 And A Reunion Of '70s Soul-jazz Pioneers The Blackbyrds
KT3’s V.I.P. CD Release Show at Vitello’s for Album - NEW AMERICAN SUITE Blackbyrds Share Opening Night of Long Beach Jazz Festival with The Isley Brothers “These performances represent the new (KT3) and the vintage (Blackbyrds) and is the culmination of my journey in music!" —Kevin Toney Keyboard wizard Kevin Toney is about kick the temperature ...
Award Winning Pianist/Composer Kevin Toney And His New Trio Kevin Toney 3 Releases New American Suite On July 24
Founding Member of the Jazz/R&B Group The Blackbyrds Blends Traditional Jazz and Classical Music To Create A Musical Mosaic Which Pays Homage to America the Beautiful” In recent years America has seen a paradigm shift toward the manifestation of real, forward thinking change – especially in the minds of people of faith. On July 24th, award-winning ...
City Life / Unfinished Business
Label: Fantasy
Released: 1994
Track listing: City Life; Rock Creek Park; Thankful 'Bout Yourself; City Life; All I Ask; Happy Music; Love So Fine; Flying High; Hash And Eggs; Unfinished Business; Time Is Movin'; In Life; Enter In; You've Got That Something; Party Land; Lady; Unfinished Business;
